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Instant Family

2018

Sean Anders

Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Octavia Spencer, Isabela Merced ...

6.1

4,666

Comedy A couple find themselves in over their heads when they adopt three children.

	Author	Review
United States	Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"Sloppy but sincere, exasperating but endearing, 'Instant Family' is the cinematic equivalent of a puppy licking your face (...) An unwieldy hodgepodge of the jokey and the maudlin"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"You could call it sentimental and glib and say that it was put through a processor, and you’d be right, but in its on-the-nose cookie-cutter way this slice-of-life pablum has a lite humanity."	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"It’s a surprisingly winning movie, packed with just the right combination of laughs and sniffles (...) The film gets into some of the real practical nuts and bolts of adopting kids out of the foster-care system"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A glossy movie that has all the edginess of a network TV pilot (...) [Wahlberg's performance] mostly consists of the muscular alpha male trying to look dominant and panicked at the same time."	NEU
United States	Tim Grierson Rolling Stone	"It’s a shame that 'Instant Family' reduces the complexity, pain and joy of parenthood to a multiplex-palatable family comedy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"It presents quite frankly the drama of kids acting out, and the subsequent resentment the adopting parents feel (...) [It] is also predictable (...) and reflexively anodyne."	NEU
United States	Monica Castillo rogerebert.com	"A movie with good intentions but is uneven in tone, leaving me with mixed feelings (...) It has a certain charm in its earnest appeal to tell a different story (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Simon Thompson IGN	"Successfully walking the line between sharp comedy and thoughtful dramedy, 'Instant Family' delivers, warming the heart and generating plenty of belly laughs."	POS
United States	Caroline Siede AV Club	"A comedy more touching than funny (...) The hit-to-miss ratio of the jokes is skewed in the wrong direction, but the film at least offers a wide range of comedic tones"	NEU

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